Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dirk Benedict

I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishing I was somewhere else, somebody else, richer or more famous. I was happy and secure with who I was, what I was and where I was. I didn't have to have what they all had.

Arturo Chavez

I'll use a body spray sometimes if I have to change real quick and don't have time to take a shower. I have Axe Body Spray.

William Shakespeare

And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

Bible Bible

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

David Ploss

All he says is that he has a one-year contract. They will probably find someone else to take over as CEO. I'm not saying Joe is a guy who couldn't do it, but generally the guy who has to wield the axe is there for a short period of time.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Sleep! I feel the need of it. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

Albert Einstein

All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Mark Sunner

A lot of companies in the midst of Linux development have put their plans on hold because they don't want to be in a situation where they would have to owe SCO some royalties. So you can see why there's an axe to grind.

Nancy L. Johnson

This bill takes an effective axe to gas prices as we work to get the flow of oil back through the port and to restore rigs, refineries and pipelines,

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Robert E. Howard

Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state.

Robert E. Howard

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

Robert E. Howard

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

Robert E. Howard

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Saul Alinsky

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.

Zen Saying

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound

Albert Einstein

Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Albert Einstein

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means

Albert Einstein

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

Albert Einstein

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind

Albert Einstein

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.

Albert Einstein

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Jiang Zemin

I was invited by President Clinton, ... So it will be up to the United States to handle these events.

Jeff Kinney

Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.

Christopher Birchby

I wouldn't play the hand any differently. I made my move and 80 percent of the time, you win with that hand. I took my shot and it didn't work out.

Andy Holt

I would urged Nico Hinds to hand himself in to the police.

Gary Shaw

I wouldn't be shocked if he had his hands raised (in victory).

Lee Evans

Kelly just ran the offense. He took high-percentage passes and put it in our hands to make plays.

Glenn Morris

Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Bengie Molina

He kept saying he was sore, he was sore. He couldn't do another pitch. He couldn't handle it.

Stephen Hadley

I would say that is some real progress.

John Bolton

I think we are still making progress. I think it is slow but it is steady,

Peter Flynn

We made progress, we haven't made as much progress as we'd like to make,

Richelle Mead

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

Trey Songz

Change is a natural form of progression.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

Samuel Johnson

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Walt Disney

Progress is impossible without change

Willard Scott

No libraries, no progress.